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Monday, March 14, 2016

#1620: Steve Foss

You were probably aware of this, but among the numerous
churches and congregations in the US there is some … seriously crazy stuff
going on. And I am sure that there are plenty of people like Steve Foss, senior
pastor of Upper Room Church in Keller, Texas, doing their things. He’ll serve
as an example. Republic of Gilead posted a partial transcript of a sermon he delivered at the 2012 Deliver Us from Evil
conference; the topic was the “assault against Christianity and the church in America. Through music, our schools, government,
and even in the church, the Devil has been unleashing corruption and deception
to try and steal the church’s power in America, and in the world.” (Keep in
mind that Foss’s speech was interspersed with glossolalia).

Foss began by claiming that archaeological evidence supported the existence of nephilim,
who were 30 feet tall beings worshipped as gods by the ancients because of
their knowledge of heaven, science, and technology. After being destroyed in
the Flood, they became demons who are now looking for bodies to possess. And they are in
particular targeting celebrities in the entertainment industry, who have proved
to be willing victims: “You know Madonna?
She has druid priests in the recording studio, summoning spirits so she can
sing her song. Now I got a question for you. If they’re summoning those spirits
in order to perform, what do you think’s coming out through the music?” If
you care for your kids, you don’t want them listening to body-possessing
zombies of 30-foot man-angel hybrids, do you? Justin Bieber, too: “He don’t sing that good! He ain’t all that
good-looking! ... You got little girls passing out. It’s a worshipping spirit.
Are you all hearing me? What they did with Michael Jackson. It is what the
enemy ultimately wants. He wants to steal the worship of God. He wants to be
worshipped.” And whenever anyone wants to be worshipped, there’s a demon
behind it.

Then he praised the plagues God sent to Egypt, especially
the killing of the first-born: “The firstborn
of Pharaoh was considered – not only were they considered divinity, but they
were considered to be of divine birth. So the firstborn son was a god, so God
killed their god! [at this point his audience went wild with applause] Come on, y’all hear me. God killed their
god.” The moral principle seems to be that if x loves y very much, then it
is OK (obligatory, in fact) to kill y because strong love takes worship away
from God. Good to know.

Then he turned to the UN: “Don’t you think for one second the U.N. has
any bit of good in it. There is nothing good in the United Nations. It is ruled
and controlled by demonic forces that are trying to bring about a one world
government system ... Why do you think they hate Israel? And they hate
Christians. Don’t you think one thing about it. You know, they just tried to
pass a treaty and get America to sign a treaty that would literally make
homeschooling illegal. And you could have foreign troops come in, foreign
police forces and officials come in, and U.N. officials come in, and actually
arrest American citizens on American soil.” Obama is part of it: By decree
of the UN he is going “to put a tax on
the Internet [he seems to be referring to this;
accuracy isn’t Foss’s strong suit]. They’re
going to put a tax on American travel. Why? Because they want to redistribute
the wealth. To take the money from America and put it overseas. One of them is
going to majorly restrict guns in America. We’re going to submit it to the U.N.”
He also targeted some esoteric small organizations and New Age groups and used
increasing social disapproval of corporal punishment as evidence of the waning
authority of the church: “In a lot of
places, you can’t even spank anymore. Man, I believe the Bible. Beat ‘em, so
they shall not die. You know, people say spare the rod, spoil the child. That’s
not what the Bible says. The Bible says spare the rod, you hate your child.”

Finally, to round it all up, Foss addressed the gay agenda,
which caused President Obama to release an evil spirit, one of the nephilim,
who is currently making people think that those who advocate the execution of
homosexuals are bigots.

Diagnosis: Thing is: People like this run their churches and
tend to their flocks and help build communities around the US. The people
regularly attending the shit Foss delivers are, for all I know, otherwise
normal people – who still listen. I leave it as an exercise to figure out how to reason with them.